🚀 go-pugleaf

conover@max.tiac.net (Harry H Conover) wrote:
>Scott Weiser (Scott.Weiser@colorado.edu) wrote:
>
>: >you lifestyle monitors get a life? You're going to die of
>: >hypertension,wondering when the next puff of smoke is going to hit you.  
>
>: Not if we can legislate it out of existance, or at least out of places of 
>: public accomodation.
>
>Lemme see if I have this right...
>
>You don't have enough clout to vote it out of existance with your 
>purchasing dollars, so you'll become enough of a 'pain in the ass'
>to the legislature so they'll outlaw it.  Sure makes sense to me!

Well, I don't believe in prohibition, I actually meant that we should 
make smoking enough of a pain in the ass by (lawfully) restricting the 
time, place and manner in which the addiction can be satisfied (while 
keeping it "legal" to do so) that smokers will eventually give it up 
voluntarily out of inconvienence..  That and social stigmatization to 
engender widespread disgust and revulsion at the thought of even 
possessing tobacco products.  It'll take awhile, but there's no time like 
the present to start.

Hopefully, in a few years, smoking will be on the same social level as 
eating your own feces.

>That's what I like about the liberal do-gooders, predictability.
>They're predictable to take whatever position is required in order
>to stick it to the other guy, even with relativly unimportant, nonsense 
>issues like smoking.  Unlike others, they're not constrained to obey
>fundamental priciples of ethical behavior or to display even a minimal 
>amount of character attributes.  Guys, had you been born 40 years
>earlier you would have made excellent Nazis (they too knew what was
>best -- for everyone).  

BZZZZZZZT!  Attention, Godwin's Law has been invoked....You lose the 
argument.


>
>The guy that made this post, to his credit, is at least honest and open 
>about it.

What fun, to be characterized as a "liberal do-gooder".  Wow, has to be a 
first!

-- 
Regards,

Scott Weiser
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